The reason why i think of chin is because there is nothing on the A / E series that matches (chestnut, opal, harlequin, non extension)
That leaves only the C serie which contains, chinchilla gene, sable gene, himalayan gene and the Rew gene.
It's obviously none of the last 2 so that leaves either chld (chinchilla dark) or the chl (sable gene)
Again, i've never seen a self chin so i don't know how they would look like, but sky said they would look black so your buck might be dilute, blue self chin? Looking at the sable gene, smoke pearl would be the only option, though he looks different to me.
So the only explanation would be chin.. what we don't know if he is either agouti or self and black or blue, but i'm leaning on self blue chin.
I hope someone points it out, i'm curious.
Also, we would learn the answer if we knew what was on the pedigree of the sire.
The dam is Rew which is noted as 'cc' on the C series.
The sire is broken black so that indicates that he is a C_
We know he is full colored, otherwise he wouldn't be able to express the black color.
But what we want to know is what he carries beside the 'C' gene.. either chld or chl
So he would be Cchld or Cchl
Putting the genotypes of the parents against each other, let's see what the outcome would be
Cchl x cc =
Cc 50% (full color carrying Rew)
cchl 50% (chin carrying Rew, which would be the kit in question)
Do you know anything on the parents of the buck so we can fill in what he carries? That would point us to the answer.
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Oh i almost forgot.. what does the kit's belly look like? Is it white like chestnut/orange's have? Or is it colored blue?
If colored, he would be self.. looking at his ears there is no lacing, which also indicates self.
